The water released from two California reservoirs will likely go to waste, not help Los Angeles with firefighting, experts ...

Both reservoirs have been steadily rising since November, after the start of California's water year in October. A series of ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Cities in the Northeast experienced record-breaking drought conditions in the second half of 2024 after a hot, dry summer in many areas. Wildfires broke out in several states that rarely see them.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...